Network Performance Daily: Dr. Fulton and Dr. Fulton at Computer Measurement Group Conference in Reno
"In a session entitled 'Best Laid Plans: Enterprise Network Performance Case Studies and Lessons Learned,' Cathy Fulton will share real-world case studies that demonstrate how well-intentioned network and systems engineering efforts can sometimes produce unexpected results - and how to avoid these mistakes - drawn from her years as a leading network engineering consultant and her in-the-trenches experience working in large enterprise network environments."

NetForecast's guide to application delivery systems, Part 1: Denise Dubie
"Tools to speed application delivery and improve application performance over WANs have been topping minds of industry watchers and enterprise IT managers, looking for ways to fix a very acute pain point."

NetForecast's guide to application delivery systems, Part 2: Denise Dubie
"Last time, I started a discussion about application performance over WANs, which was prompted by a paper sent to me by an industry watcher. While the last focused more on the problem, this newsletter will focus more on the solutions available today."

WHIR.com: Cisco CEO Predicts 15 Exabytes/Month Bandwidth Usage by 2015
"Wikipedia says as of the end of 1999, the sum of all human knowledge (including all text as well as audio/video recordings) only amounted to 12.6 million TB. The blogosphere and YouTube might have increased that figure somewhat..."

ZDNet.com » Do stacks solve the lock-in problem?
"One of the big trends of 2006 has been for major vendors (the folks who benefit from lock-in) supporting a version of the stack. There's now an Oracle stack, an H-P stack, an IBM stack, even a Microsoft (endorsed) stack, from Novell."

InfoQ: Boris Lublinsky: Incorporating Enterprise Data into SOA
"In this article we will revisit a typical SOA architecture, outline the complexities of dealing with the enterprise data and discuss several design patterns for incorporating of this data into SOA implementations."